We’ve all heard of Photoshop and the great things it could dowhen it comes to photo manipulation, but for those who need anopen-source free of cost alternative there is an answer:GIMP. Far from being a complete Photoshopreplacement, it can easily play its role in many basicoperations.
GIMP is a piece of software for tasks such as imagecomposition, photo retouching and image authoring. It works on manyoperating systems, in many languages.
GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is afreely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching,image composition and image authoring.
It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program,an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batchprocessing system, a mass production image renderer, an imageformat converter, etc.
GIMP is expandable and extensible. It is designed to be augmentedwith plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. Theadvanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplesttask to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easilyscripted.
Here are some key features of “GIMP”:
Painting:
– Full suite of painting tools including Brush, Pencil,Airbrush, Clone and etc.
– Sub-pixel sampling for all paint tools for high qualityanti-aliasing
– Extremely powerful gradient editor and blend tool
– Supports custom brushes and patterns
System:
– Tile based memory management so image size is limited onlyby available disk space
– Virtually unlimited number of images open at one time
Advanced Manipulation:
– Full alpha channel support
– Layers and channels
– Multiple Undo/Redo (limited only by diskspace)
– Editable text layers
– Transformation tools including rotate, scale, shear andflip
– Selection tools including rectangle, ellipse, free, fuzzyand intelligent
– Advanced path tool doing bezier and polygonalselections.
– Transformable paths, transformable selections.
– Quickmask to paint a selection.
Extensible:
– A Procedural Database for calling internal GIMP functionsfrom
– external programs as in Script-fu
– Advanced scripting capabilities (Scheme, Python, Perl)
– Plug-ins which allow for the easy addition of new fileformats and new
– effect filters
– Over 100 plug-ins already available
Animation:
– Load and save animations in a convenient frame-as-layerformat
– MNG support
– Frame Navigator (in GAP, the GIMP Animation Package)
– Onion Skin (in GAP, the GIMP Animation Package)
– Bluebox (in GAP, the GIMP Animation Package)
File Handling:
– File formats supported include bmp, gif, jpeg, mng, pcx,pdf, png, ps, psd, svg, tiff, tga, xpm, and many others
– Load, display, convert, save to many file formats
– SVG path import/export
Installer Size: 154 MB
Download Links : GIMP v2.10.2 + Crack